beckoning

Thursday, May 10, 2012

How We Got Here and Who We Are

My
father received a diagnosis for a rare type of arthritis. The
treatment....cancer related drugs. And they were only to help make him
comfortable. I watched my father in his mid 40s not be able to pick up his 2
year old grandson, not be able to walk down steps, not be able to turn his
head. He is suppose to be in a wheelchair now. He is suppose to be knocking on
deaths door, as this form of arthritis is incurable and reacts fast.

We
always ate "healthy", but after this doctors visit we knew it was time to get
our acts together and really think about what we were doing to ourselves. I am
more than happy and releaved to say that by the power of Jesus, and the love of
an amazing God, my father is holding his now 4 year old grandson, walking
steps, running, we even built a mansion of a chicken coop together.

Between
what happen to my dad and reading the book The Seven Pillars of Health by
Dr. Don Colbert, we knew it was time to start living life God's way. It was
time to slow down and enjoy life and family.

So now
that you know the basic layout of our families journey, I would like to
introduce you to us.

Z and Abigail

That
would be me, Abigail. I love learning new stuff and putting it into practice. I
do most of the research for the family and then we all adapt it. I love nature
and landscape photography. My family means the world to me. I
was a youth pastors for a few years and I now help my parents with their
ministry. With out Jesus, my life would not be what it is today.

Next
would be that incredibly handsome man next to me, Z. Z is 4 years old and is
the most amazing kid in the world. He can quote about 15 scriptures, loves to
pray for people and started homeschooling this year. He loves to try and feed
the chickens flowers and sticks and loves to play random games with our dog. If
you give him the chance he would be outside from sun up to sun down. And if you
talk to him for more that 5 seconds you are almost guaranteed an invite to
visit him at his camper. Isn't he just sssssooooo cute?!?

Coco, Pop Pop and Nay Nay

That
amazing couple... hidden by the massive fluff... would be my parents. I
couldn't have asked for a more loving and involved set of parents. They run a
ministry, believe in the power of healing, love God with everything in them and
are into learning to be self sufficient. Pop Pop loves to hunt and can
fix/build anything and is great with animals. Nay Nay, named by Z when he was a
year old, loves to paint and decorate. Each room in the house has at least
three coats of paint, with about a million coats in the living room! We are
currently using their acre property until we all move to our homestead in the
sticks.

That
gorgeous mass of fluff is Coco. He would be my parents dog, but secretively he
is mine. When we make it to our family homestead I plan to kidnap him. Coco is
amazing with all the grand kids, letting them play on him like a jungle gym. He
is a big teddy bear of love and can be caught cuddled up with Joy Bells for an
afternoon nap. In the pic below is that white wonder, Joy Bells. She's Z's little girl. She loves to play and run and snuggle with Z at night. They are two peas in a pod and always causing trouble together!

Trouble in the making. All that's

missing from this pic is Z.

Notice the screen behind Coco.

So that would be my beautiful family.
Well, half of it, the half that is excited at this time to journey to the
unknown. Life will never stop going and changing, but you can make the choice
to stop running and gunning. Love your family. Take a deep breath, ahh, doesn't
that just feel refreshing?

About

Who am I? I'm a wife, mom, a gal who desires to be healthy, and someone who learned to love her self. I am a simple girl with a love for life, a love for Jesus, a love for my family. I desire to live in a simpler way and to enjoy doing it. I play with makeup for a living and love to get lost in the woods. I desire to live without conventional boundaries so as to enjoy every moment I'm given on this earth.